The Global Challenge became a movement of thousands of people from more than 100 countries over six continents. Like us, they believe that Hyperloop will not only solve transportation and urban development challenges within communities, it will unlock vast economic potential and transform how our cities operate and how we live.

So the next step is that Hyperloop One will be working with each winning team to make this project more feasible on all fronts - technologically, economically, analysis of routes and more.

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As we've reported earlier this year, the Texas Hyperloop would theoretically be able to transport someone from Houston to Dallas in 30 minutes. Think about it... less traffic in Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio... working in Houston but being able to commute from Dallas... it could really change the landscape of our day-to-day lives.